While I do live in Cleveland, and on a whole don't care for the city much at all, University Circle and the CWRU area are great, home to some great museums and probably one of the most culturally diverse areas in the metro area. Your sad attempt at subtle racism just sucks. Get back to the lilly-white suburbs where you belong.
Agreed, my last employer had a Palm OS based app hey wanted thier field contractors to use. After it left BETA one of the pointy headed management types (who insisted on sitting in on support meetings) pipes in and says "shouldn't we have one of those agreement thingies you click during installation that says we can't be held responsible if our software wrecks your computer and you can't sell our intellectual property???" . I suggested that if we were to do that we should get legal to do some research and come up with some legit terms and conditions. The manager made that "harrumph" noise they make when they don't have an answer, and when the support team left she suggested one of the programmers cut and paste a lisence from some MS product and that should do the job. Too funny, worst job I ever had and I am so happy I finally got out of there.
The moral of the story is that most software companies include a EULA because they think it looks professional, not because they understand the terms and conditions. Thanks Bill Gates.
This is what happens when your entire economy becomes based on intellectual property. The U.S. has stopped making anything in the last few years besides ideas. Between NAFTA moving manufacturing jobs overseas and tech jobs following, the last thing a company has to cling to is ideas/intellectual property. The marketing of ideas as capital/consumer good (software licensing) and the packaging of art as product (see current state of pop music) should serve as notice.
This is just the beginning of this type of thing, more legislation, litigation and saber rattling are on tap for the near (and probably) long term future. The patenting and profiting from/of intellecutal property in the wildly broad terms accepted today, combined with a culture of litigation and the broad language of the DMCA opens doors for this kind of thing to just perpetuate itself. A serious reform of patent law and clearer definitions of what intellecutal property and fair use entails should become top priorities. Please note I am not espousing some kind of socialist utopia of/for information, I have no problem with people protecting their work and making a fair profit.
Bill Gates admitted in a couple interviews that with if the "culture of patents" that MS lives by existed when MS started, they wouldn't be here today. While I think Lessig gets a little too far out there with this stuff, him and his brood make many good points. Not just our economy but the future of our culture is at risk.
Perhaps your Blog is the exception, but most are self-serving dribble. It's possible I have simply lost faith in the free Internet to provide any real means of communication, and my cynicism is the real issue... but I'll bet not. Good luck, it's not a personal attack against your Blog or you, I just think as a form of communication they aren't all that useful to 98.9% of posters or readers.
It's all bad, don't misunderstand me. I think American sitcoms are as dumb as they come. I sited Benny Hill more as an effort to point out that any country is capable of producing mindless tripe, not as a direct shot at my Brit cousins, so don't take it that way. The majority of mass-media and entertainment in the U.S. has devolved into pure junk, but it's hardly a basis for international tension, as the original post implied. You can't complain about economic and social injustice in the U.S. and then toss in a reference to sitcoms, it's not like anyone over here (outside of Hollywood) is really proud of 3s Company of Welcome Back Kotter. Really, we swear.
compact fluorescent lightbulbs? Cleaner burning, more efficient and cheaper to operate. And then G.E. won't have to hire more lobbyist to prevent this other stuff from getting in thier way.
because that's what personal communcation with friends and family is all about, efficiency. Very heart warming. Don't look now, civilization is collapsing.
Okay, you can hate all you want (that whole freedom of speech thing again), and some of what you said is true (or at least has a seed of truth in it somewhere). America has lots of issues, and many good points which you are quick to ignore. There is no question that our society has many issues and inequalities, but I am proud to live here reqardless. America is due for a large shift in social and economic policy, something we are good for every few decades. I can't say when or what is coming, but something will galvanize the people and change will follow. But any chance you had of being taken seriously was killed when you dragged this jewel into the mix...
its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
Sitcoms? Sitcoms are an international grievance? Do you think this might be Osama Bin Laden's problem? He's a big Benny Hill fan and really hates it that Seinfeld gets so much play in syndication while Benny is no where to be found? Jesus, way to lose all focus...
an overly tech oriented replacment for "Dear Diary" and a waste of time for most readers. So unless your the current equivalent of Lewis & Clark or General Grant or Abraham Lincoln it's pretty much just cheap therapy and soap boxes for the commons...
Not trying to create flamebait, but honestly, what use is...
Dear Blog (July 25): Just read an article on Yahoo about the guy with no feet who is walking cross county on his hands to raise money for kids born without ear lobes. Isn't that uplifting???
Dear Blog (July 25) I love my new iMac, it's just so yummy and friendly, not like the evil Micro$oft Winblows. Yuck!
Dear Blog (July 26): I hate that darn Marsha Brady, she's just so perfect!!!
Dear Blog (July 29): I just read an article on Yahoo about world politics, what follows are my 3.5 pages of unfocussed rant, aren't I smart world?
Dear Blog (July 30): Why won't he notice me damnit? Well, he'll notice when his cat disappears, the PETA website says we should free all the domestically enslaved house pets anyway. Here goes nothing?
Dear Blog (July 31): Mom took me to the doctor today, they say the Lithium will take the edge off, but I am not sure what that means. Think I will take a nap now......
Who F ing cares, personal Blogs are 99% attention whoring. And there's plenty of chat rooms, message boards and newsgroups for that purpose, just use this post as an example.
Just because you don't agree doesn't make it a troll post. See, exactly what I'm talking about, a bunch of F ing illiterates "moderating" message boards.
Preach on brother, too many people make a living hawking diversions or debating the quality of those diversions. The world spirals the drain while everyone waits for another preview of Doom 3.
If all the asshats on the web who had nothing to say and thought they were important kept to themselves (all of us included), there would be no newsgroups/messageboards/forums/chat rooms. That's why the Internet is useless as a means of communication for most people, too many asshats using big words.
of all mass media in the U.S. They are crap, just like most recent music and movies, and let's not even get in to what passes for acceptable at the book store these days. Once American corporations figure out how to market it, they suck the joy out of it. And the whole idea of "video games journalism" is almost as funny as the whole idea of "web journalism" where checking your facts and actually understanding the subject come in somewhere just behind driving hit count.
The New York Times and other mass media corps might have thier issues (and there is no doubt that all journalism has gone south in recent years), but I'll take them over web news any day.
so the industry should try the brilliant and fair minds at Gartner and IDC? Yankee is just like every othe half baked consultancy/think tank out there, issuing any statement that will stir up headlines and generate some sales of their bogus reports. The I.T. industry has been circling the drain for almost 2 years now, hopefully when it bottoms out the garbage will have floated downstream to ruin some other industry.
The Bush adminstration and lobbyist continue exporting I.T. jobs. Then our unemployment benefits run out, we end up homeless, etc... Then they fund a massive study on the migration pattern of unemployed/homeless nerds.
I can save them lots of time and money, once unemployed and homeless, cut off from our broadband connections and linux boxen we will all migrate to the nearest adult bookstore where we squander our last few dollars on pR0n!
Serious note though, worst idea ever. This wreaks of a pilot program to chip all of us. Why do I suddenly feel like making an anonymous cash donation to the local ACLU chapter? Where's my disguise kit???
is it appears MS is proud of this percentage. Along the lines of "only half the total failures of our software are our fault" so look how good our product is. After this many years I really expect to hear that 90% of crashes are due to third party code and that Windows is finally what has been promised for all these years. No question XP has lived up to a lot of it's promise, but it's more than obvious security and stability have miles to go. This is just plain sad.
Again, just because it doesn't meet your definition of cool doesn't make it right. I don't even play MMORPGs, don't have the time to put into it, but that doesn't make what was done right. If you are going to troll at least stay on topic.
I like your wide-eyed "white hat" hacker approach in this reply... Sadly, I feel its bullshit! Its one thing if I invite you and enjoy your attempting to learn from my mistakes, it's another if your tampering screws with a large group of people who didn't invite you. When you put your stuff out and tolerate someone screwing with it, you have made choice. But all the people who pay to play Shadowbane weren't given a choice. And while it's easy to lay on the "holier than thou" stuff and rag on the admins and programmers, the fact remains what was done was illegal and wasn't done in any spirit of "people who look up and wonder how it all works and have a play with it" or they would have played around just a little and then notified the admins of the exploit. It was done because so much of the current "hacker" community is filled with angst filled suburban script kiddies who serve no real purpose beyond wreaking havoc.
That's f ing weak, just because it doesn't meet your definition of cool doesn't mean it wasn't illegal. Don't cry me a river about the "real" problems of the world. If I pay a monthly fee to play a game to (at least briefly) forget about those "real" problems, I should be safe from a "real" criminal screwing with my time and investment. Get over yourself.
"they've put out products that, while far from perfect, did the job well enough to serve as the focal point for PC development for the last couple decades."
I'd write something sarcastic.... but the pain from being doubled over laughing is preventing it.... Ooooh, stop.....
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While I do live in Cleveland, and on a whole don't care for the city much at all, University Circle and the CWRU area are great, home to some great museums and probably one of the most culturally diverse areas in the metro area. Your sad attempt at subtle racism just sucks. Get back to the lilly-white suburbs where you belong.
The moral of the story is that most software companies include a EULA because they think it looks professional, not because they understand the terms and conditions. Thanks Bill Gates.
noticed the location I thought they had arrested the weak ass Microsoft coder that left this hole in the first place. Oh well...
This is just the beginning of this type of thing, more legislation, litigation and saber rattling are on tap for the near (and probably) long term future. The patenting and profiting from/of intellecutal property in the wildly broad terms accepted today, combined with a culture of litigation and the broad language of the DMCA opens doors for this kind of thing to just perpetuate itself. A serious reform of patent law and clearer definitions of what intellecutal property and fair use entails should become top priorities. Please note I am not espousing some kind of socialist utopia of/for information, I have no problem with people protecting their work and making a fair profit.
Bill Gates admitted in a couple interviews that with if the "culture of patents" that MS lives by existed when MS started, they wouldn't be here today. While I think Lessig gets a little too far out there with this stuff, him and his brood make many good points. Not just our economy but the future of our culture is at risk.
Someone help me with how this is flamebait? This is what happens when you let the passengers from the short bus handle moderation duties.
Perhaps your Blog is the exception, but most are self-serving dribble. It's possible I have simply lost faith in the free Internet to provide any real means of communication, and my cynicism is the real issue... but I'll bet not. Good luck, it's not a personal attack against your Blog or you, I just think as a form of communication they aren't all that useful to 98.9% of posters or readers.
Hmmm, how did we ever learn about ourselves and the world without Blogs? Oh yes, we unplugged and conversed in person, that was it.
It's all bad, don't misunderstand me. I think American sitcoms are as dumb as they come. I sited Benny Hill more as an effort to point out that any country is capable of producing mindless tripe, not as a direct shot at my Brit cousins, so don't take it that way. The majority of mass-media and entertainment in the U.S. has devolved into pure junk, but it's hardly a basis for international tension, as the original post implied. You can't complain about economic and social injustice in the U.S. and then toss in a reference to sitcoms, it's not like anyone over here (outside of Hollywood) is really proud of 3s Company of Welcome Back Kotter. Really, we swear.
I think you are giving him too much credit, got it?
compact fluorescent lightbulbs? Cleaner burning, more efficient and cheaper to operate. And then G.E. won't have to hire more lobbyist to prevent this other stuff from getting in thier way.
because that's what personal communcation with friends and family is all about, efficiency. Very heart warming. Don't look now, civilization is collapsing.
its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
Sitcoms? Sitcoms are an international grievance? Do you think this might be Osama Bin Laden's problem? He's a big Benny Hill fan and really hates it that Seinfeld gets so much play in syndication while Benny is no where to be found? Jesus, way to lose all focus...
Not trying to create flamebait, but honestly, what use is...
Dear Blog (July 25): Just read an article on Yahoo about the guy with no feet who is walking cross county on his hands to raise money for kids born without ear lobes. Isn't that uplifting???
Dear Blog (July 25) I love my new iMac, it's just so yummy and friendly, not like the evil Micro$oft Winblows. Yuck!
Dear Blog (July 26): I hate that darn Marsha Brady, she's just so perfect!!!
Dear Blog (July 29): I just read an article on Yahoo about world politics, what follows are my 3.5 pages of unfocussed rant, aren't I smart world?
Dear Blog (July 30): Why won't he notice me damnit? Well, he'll notice when his cat disappears, the PETA website says we should free all the domestically enslaved house pets anyway. Here goes nothing?
Dear Blog (July 31): Mom took me to the doctor today, they say the Lithium will take the edge off, but I am not sure what that means. Think I will take a nap now......
Who F ing cares, personal Blogs are 99% attention whoring. And there's plenty of chat rooms, message boards and newsgroups for that purpose, just use this post as an example.
Just because you don't agree doesn't make it a troll post. See, exactly what I'm talking about, a bunch of F ing illiterates "moderating" message boards.
Preach on brother, too many people make a living hawking diversions or debating the quality of those diversions. The world spirals the drain while everyone waits for another preview of Doom 3.
If all the asshats on the web who had nothing to say and thought they were important kept to themselves (all of us included), there would be no newsgroups/messageboards/forums/chat rooms. That's why the Internet is useless as a means of communication for most people, too many asshats using big words.
The New York Times and other mass media corps might have thier issues (and there is no doubt that all journalism has gone south in recent years), but I'll take them over web news any day.
so the industry should try the brilliant and fair minds at Gartner and IDC? Yankee is just like every othe half baked consultancy/think tank out there, issuing any statement that will stir up headlines and generate some sales of their bogus reports. The I.T. industry has been circling the drain for almost 2 years now, hopefully when it bottoms out the garbage will have floated downstream to ruin some other industry.
I can save them lots of time and money, once unemployed and homeless, cut off from our broadband connections and linux boxen we will all migrate to the nearest adult bookstore where we squander our last few dollars on pR0n!
Serious note though, worst idea ever. This wreaks of a pilot program to chip all of us. Why do I suddenly feel like making an anonymous cash donation to the local ACLU chapter? Where's my disguise kit???
is it appears MS is proud of this percentage. Along the lines of "only half the total failures of our software are our fault" so look how good our product is. After this many years I really expect to hear that 90% of crashes are due to third party code and that Windows is finally what has been promised for all these years. No question XP has lived up to a lot of it's promise, but it's more than obvious security and stability have miles to go. This is just plain sad.
This probably violates Amazon's patent on patenting mundane stuff so they can sue, look out Netflix.
Again, just because it doesn't meet your definition of cool doesn't make it right. I don't even play MMORPGs, don't have the time to put into it, but that doesn't make what was done right. If you are going to troll at least stay on topic.
I like your wide-eyed "white hat" hacker approach in this reply... Sadly, I feel its bullshit! Its one thing if I invite you and enjoy your attempting to learn from my mistakes, it's another if your tampering screws with a large group of people who didn't invite you. When you put your stuff out and tolerate someone screwing with it, you have made choice. But all the people who pay to play Shadowbane weren't given a choice. And while it's easy to lay on the "holier than thou" stuff and rag on the admins and programmers, the fact remains what was done was illegal and wasn't done in any spirit of "people who look up and wonder how it all works and have a play with it" or they would have played around just a little and then notified the admins of the exploit. It was done because so much of the current "hacker" community is filled with angst filled suburban script kiddies who serve no real purpose beyond wreaking havoc.
That's f ing weak, just because it doesn't meet your definition of cool doesn't mean it wasn't illegal. Don't cry me a river about the "real" problems of the world. If I pay a monthly fee to play a game to (at least briefly) forget about those "real" problems, I should be safe from a "real" criminal screwing with my time and investment. Get over yourself.
I'd write something sarcastic.... but the pain from being doubled over laughing is preventing it.... Ooooh, stop.....